Symbolism In The World On The Turtle's Back

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The world on the Turtle’s back The iroquois use allusions to native american traditional gender roles in order to teach the younger generations how to be proper iroquois husbands and wives. For instance, the iroquois warned that if young girls have “curiosity or had their husbands they will humanity pushed out of their protective society just as quickly as the husband fed up with all the demands [this wife] had on him, pushed her.” these allusion create substantial fear in the young generations enough to educate and change behavior. The symbolism in the story is used to explain the role that women had at the time, which would portray how much freedom, and how much say so they had in their lives. They never had a right or privilege to take

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